cballard37
Cadet
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2010
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- 8
Hello everyone,
My brother and I recently acquired this 14' Randall craft, Flat Bottom, Fiberglass boat for a couple hundred dollars. Previously to putting it in the water for a float test, the deck was solid as a rock, we put the boat into the canal where we live, in Edgewater, Florida and it rained. Upon our first inspection to the exterior of the hull, everything looked great. We left it in the water tied up. It rained overnight, the boat got about 3" of water in it, I bilge pumped it out, and now a few days later, the surface of the deck, is all puffy and bouncy, like there is a mass of water all down the center of the boat, under the fiberglass. In one place I found a 1" hairline crack in the deck and when pressed on, water comes out but just barely.
What I am wondering, or just assuming is that there is some sort of wood / foam underneath the fiberglass deck surface that has become swollen and/or foam disloged, etc. Can anyone confirm the type of construction used on these models? I want to cut the deck off and inspect, but I dont know if I will be getting in over my head.. Please help with any info, as I don't have alot of experience with these things, but have alot of time on my hands to fix things so.. Thanks in advance, can post pictures tomorrow..
My brother and I recently acquired this 14' Randall craft, Flat Bottom, Fiberglass boat for a couple hundred dollars. Previously to putting it in the water for a float test, the deck was solid as a rock, we put the boat into the canal where we live, in Edgewater, Florida and it rained. Upon our first inspection to the exterior of the hull, everything looked great. We left it in the water tied up. It rained overnight, the boat got about 3" of water in it, I bilge pumped it out, and now a few days later, the surface of the deck, is all puffy and bouncy, like there is a mass of water all down the center of the boat, under the fiberglass. In one place I found a 1" hairline crack in the deck and when pressed on, water comes out but just barely.
What I am wondering, or just assuming is that there is some sort of wood / foam underneath the fiberglass deck surface that has become swollen and/or foam disloged, etc. Can anyone confirm the type of construction used on these models? I want to cut the deck off and inspect, but I dont know if I will be getting in over my head.. Please help with any info, as I don't have alot of experience with these things, but have alot of time on my hands to fix things so.. Thanks in advance, can post pictures tomorrow..